Fell overboard today - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Mr. Sandman · 05-23-2011, 03:57 PM

and my boat is on the hard!

Man the ground is hard.

I laid on the ground for a while, no one around, bumped my head on the ground but seem OK. My bones ache a bit. I think I'll call it quits for today.

You have to be careful on boats even when they are out of the water! Feel kinda stupid after it happend.

PRBuzz · 05-23-2011, 04:04 PM

Good advice and glad you were not seriously hurt!

Swimmer · 05-23-2011, 04:21 PM

Hope your O.K.

JohnR · 05-23-2011, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swimmer

Hope your O.K.

Agree, at least when Frank fell out of a boat on the Vineyard he had the foresight to do it while the boat was in the water, ya know, to ease the fall and such.

nightfighter · 05-23-2011, 04:25 PM

Jeeeezus, glad you are OK Jim! I know two who have died from that, one a boat broker showing a boat, the other, Bob Brown, who owned the Andrea Gail and Hannah Boden....

Moses · 05-23-2011, 04:29 PM

Glad you seem to be OK.

Now, tell us exactly how this happened? One doesn't just fall off/out of a boat. Come on.....

UserRemoved1 · 05-23-2011, 04:41 PM

Got funny video?

Glad your ok Jim. That sucks

Raven · 05-23-2011, 04:50 PM

happens when you least expect it...

Glad you seem okay and i hope
you will remain so...

the only thing you can do is to analyze the minute
details that lead to the mishap and learn from them.

FishermanTim · 05-23-2011, 05:02 PM

Must have been one of those "apocolyptic earthquakes" that was supposed to harken the end of the world.
Or a rogue land-wave hit you broadside?

Glad you're OK (or as OK as you were before).
Remember, it's not the fall that hurtsm but that sudden stop at the end!

beamie · 05-23-2011, 07:09 PM

Glad to hear your alright Sandman. That is something that happens so fast but one doesn't think about too much. It doesn't take much of a fall to seriously hurt oneself. The fact that you didn't break anything.....you landed "right" and your probably in decent shape.

When I was a boy about 8 I guess, I grew up on a sailboat and one year out of the water I fell off backwards. From eyewitnesses I did a 360 backflip and basically landed on my feet. My family and I got really lucky that day..........

Backbeach Jake · 05-23-2011, 07:20 PM

Did that in the driveway while being attacked by yellow-jackets. Broke two ribs. First day of vacation.

thefishingfreak · 05-23-2011, 07:26 PM

I hopped down from the stern one day only problem was my pants stayed hooked to the stern cleat. I hung there helpless bye the arse for a good 10 seconds. That is until my pants ripped from the back pocket to the ankle and down I went face first.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Fish On · 05-23-2011, 09:18 PM

I'v e almost done that a couple of times in my driveway. Glad you are ok Jim. You might have gone to bed early tonight but I'm guessing Denise came home and said, "OK, Jim, let's be safe, back to work to get you checked out". With any luck it's two aspirin and 100% in the morning.

MakoMike · 05-24-2011, 08:21 AM

Hope you're o.k., look at the bright side, it could have been worse. My mate fell off the roof of his house this past winter while trying to shovel it!

Van · 05-24-2011, 09:17 AM

Glad your OK, nothing broken.

You'll know better tomorrow when the pain sets in.

Mr. Sandman · 05-24-2011, 10:45 AM

Thanks. I am moving more slowly today. Other than a couple red bumps on my head and a sore chest and a major case of embarrassment I am OK. I can breath ok so I don't think I broke any ribs. It happens fast. I had something on the gunnel that I didn't want to knock over and I put my shoe on the outer part of the gunnel, I looked down and my shoe slipped off the edge of the boat when I was getting off the latter, the next thing you know you are on the ground with the latter on top of you. It must have looked ridiculous.
When I was laying on the ground I was thinking about my cousin who fell off one of his commercial boats a couple years ago while on the hard and landed right on his ass...he now has a titanium rod in his spine and chronic back issues. I am glad it was not too big a deal for me.
I feel like an idiot and was not even going to mention it but figured someone else might think twice when they are hiking up the latter to their boat the next wet morning.

sburnsey931 · 05-24-2011, 11:45 AM

2 years ago.... the day I was buying my boat... I was so excited... I had waited years for this day. In the driveway of the seller I was climbing up a small step ladder onto the tiny swim platform over the gunnel and into the boat. About the fifth time carrying all my new goodies into the boat, I decided to leap over the gunnel. I put my hand down to vault it...... my hand slipped and I did a forward roll out of the boat onto the driveway. A 7 foot drop flat on my back. I hurt myself bad. I split my head open and knocked the wind out of myself so bad I went to the hospital because I couldn't catch my breath. My whole lower back was in spasm for weeks. The worst hit I've ever taken and I'm a hockey player and Commercial Drywaller. I was so mad because I would've have been just fine if I wasn't so freaking old.....

Swimmer · 05-24-2011, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnR

Agree, at least when Frank fell out of a boat on the Vineyard he had the foresight to do it while the boat was in the water, ya know, to ease the fall and such.

I thought no one remembered. Hence the screen name swimmer. Thank god Bill grabbed the fly rod before it sank.

chathamblue30 · 05-24-2011, 02:06 PM

Ouch hope you are ok. Is there any room to park the boat on the grass.

piemma · 05-24-2011, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman

and my boat is on the hard!

Man the ground is hard.

I laid on the ground for a while, no one around, bumped my head on the ground but seem OK. My bones ache a bit. I think I'll call it quits for today.

You have to be careful on boats even when they are out of the water! Feel kinda stupid after it happend.

Hysterical!!!